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Welcome to the Paradox Community Paradox Programming Tips & Tricks page! Below you'll see various tips and tricks to help you get the most out of ObjectPAL.

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Tips & Tricks
Author/ContributorDateTitle
Allen Mulvey 26 Feb 2002 Accessing an ODBC Data Source from Paradox
  Allen gives us the steps needed to set up and access an ODBC data source, including sample code and a .REG file for setting up the DSN without having to open the ODBC utility.

Arthur van Lokhorst 19 Jul 2003 Roll Your Own Progress Bar With ObjectPAL
  Arthur shows us how to make and use a custom progress bar, including a sample download!

Eric Taylor 11 Dec 2001 Paradox For Windows Naming Conventions
  Eric gives us an example of a detailed naming convention.

Ingerid Skavdal 31 Jul 2002 Language Drivers - Extended Characters - Queries In ObjectPAL
  Learn the tricks you need to ensure your ObjectPAL queries against tables using certain "international" table languages come out right.

Kasey Chang 24 Jun 2001 ObjectPAL List Tricks
  Kasey offers a few tricks for making the most of lists!

Kasey Chang 05 Aug 2001 Query Optimization via Local Temp Tables
  Kasey gives us a tip for speeding up those network queries!

Kasey Chang 16 Jun 2001 Returning Multiple Items with formReturn()
  Don't return anything until you've checked out Kasey's explanation of three methods for returning values from a form.

Manuele Grueff 04 Jun 2001 Finding Links Between Tables
  Use this code tip to find dependencies between tables which use referential integrity.

Mark Bannister 05 Dec 2001 Changing Formatted Memo Field Font Attributes
  Mark shows us how to modify text in a formatted memo field!

Mike Irwin 09 Jun 2003 Timeouts With Your Program
  Mike shows us how to timeout Paradox forms to prevent them from being left open and unused indefinitely.

Paul Cronk 19 Jun 2002 Hiding the Status Bar in ObjectPAL
  Paul gives us a trick for hiding the Paradox status bar using ObjectPAL code.

Rick Carter 19 Jun 2001 How to "Filter" a Lookup Table
  Rick explains how to get some flexibility through filtered lookups!

Rick Kelly 10 Aug 2002 Formatted Hexadecimal Memory Dumper
  Rick gives us a handy script and detailed explanation on how to inspect memory contents by writing the contents of a specific address range to a text file with both the hexadecimal content and ASCII string values included.

Roy Frieband 28 Mar 2002 Simulating Data Model Links via Filters
  Got unkeyed tales? Need to "link" them together on a form? Roy shows us a quick and easy technique to link together unkeyed tables to simulate a master-detail relationship.

Tony McGuire 08 Jun 2001 Managing Aliases - BDE or tcursor?
  Use this trick for quick, flexible manipulation of aliases without the need to restart Paradox before your changes take effect.

Vladimir Menkin 10 Aug 2002 Tracking External Programs from ObjectPAL
  Vladimir shows us how to continue working in Paradox while it's waiting for an external program, and then check on whether that external program is still running.



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